Fats, animal, rendering · Maryland

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood

Linkwood, MD · ~136 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood safety composite

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood: 5.7 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.7 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Linkwood, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO Los Angeles Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients - Linkwood in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients - Linkwood averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Fats, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients - Linkwood falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients - Linkwood (136 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ingredients - Linkwood
Darling Ingredients - Linkwood (136 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients - Linkwood has more employees than the Fats, animal, rendering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.2 4.8 9 0 0
2023 5.7 5.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MD · Linkwood

151 Fats, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Plant 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMMONS FEED INGREDIENTS-DRY 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS-Plant 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nichols Contracting Inc 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worcester Eisenbrandt 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Test & Balance, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street 136 FTE
NAT-TCR St Catherine's Manor of Washington Court House 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bimeda Irwindale 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CLR Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harwood Place 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ncrai - Raleigh Airport 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tntul - Tullahoma 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staiman Recycling Corporation Williamsport 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gasta - Statesboro 136 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.